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028026London: Gilbert and Rivington. Octavo and Folio. Volume I 373 pages; Volume II 478 pages index no dateca.1900 Volume III folio oversize was prepared by West Point's Department of Military Art and Engineering in 1942 by Colonel T.D. Stamps. with 125 full page maps each measuring approximately 13" x 8" or 13" x 16" for the larger maps. David Chandler considered this one of his major sources in his study of the Napoleonic Wars. The maps have been used by military history experts as well as those devoted to war games since they were issued forty years after the original volumes by Wartenburg. Bound in full modern leather trimmed in gilt and blind spine lettered and rule in gilt top edges gilt endpapers renewed. Gilbert and Rivington unknown books
189447327London: Privately Printed 1894. 1st Edition NCBEL III 1354; Pariser 156; Todd 213d. "The impression of this book is limited to a few copies for private circulation only."-- Page v; according to Pariser & Todd this 33 cc on Whatmann paper. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Bevelled boards. Minor wear. Bookseller ticket to front paste-down. A VG - Nr Fine copy. xiii 1 Errata 57 3 pp including Index. Facsimile letter as frontispiece. 8vo. <br/><br/>"Ernest Chesneau was the author of La Peintre Anglaise which was published in England in 1885 as The English School of Painting with a preface by John Ruskin. Ruskin’s twenty letters to Chesneau were written between 1867 and 1883 and contain many interesting passages devoted to Ruskin’s philosophy of art and his opinions of various painters." as quoted on RBH. Privately Printed hardcover books
1870138661870. Watercolor on board. 1 vols. Image approx. 13 x 17-1/2 inches; matted and framed to 20 x 24 inches overall. Fine condition. Vient Gustave. Watercolor on board. 1 vols. Image approx. 13 x 17-1/2 inches; matted and framed to 20 x 24 inches overall. Fine Original Franco-Prussian War Battle Scene by Vient. On the nearly barren landscape row after row of foot-soldiers march along the horizon at left. The focal point of the drawing is the artillery a few soldiers on horseback and several horses pulling and three soldiers pushing a cannon. Another group of soldiers on horseback appear at right. They all appear to be rushing towards the battlefield which is visible in the distance with clouds of smoke from fired weapons.<br/><br/><br/><br/>A dashing depiction by the French painter who specialized in landscapes and fans. Vient exhibited at the Salon of 1878-1881. unknown books
1937122606Atlanta 1937. unbound. 1 page 11 x 7.25 inches Atlanta June 29 1937. Rare letter signed "Margaret Mitchell Marsh" declining an invitation to a party because it conflicts with her wedding anniversary in full: "Dear Miss Hall: Sue Myrick forwarded to me your invitation and John and I appreciate it so very much. I know the party will be lots of fun and I only wish we could come but Sunday is our wedding anniversary and we have already made plans to spend it with friends. I admit that the temptation to break this engagement is strong because I liked Milledgeville so much when I was there at the Press meeting. And also I would love to attend your party as Prissy. That is the only role my size would warrant. The costume would be cheap too --just a croker sack and ten cents' worth of shoe polish. We do appreciate your invitation so much and I shall look forward to Sue's description of the party." Two horizontal folds and slight foxing; very good condition.<br/><br/> unknown books
P004216St. Petersburg: V drukarniakh Tiblena i komp. i Kulisha 1864. Large octavo 26 Ã 17 cm. Recent half-calf binding over five raised bands with gilt title to spine and marbled edges; VII 1 2-304 1 II-XVII pp. Owner signature to title page Zinovii Bilenko. Occasional markings in pen in the margins else very good. First edition. Considered the finest achievement in Slavic paroemiology of its time this collection of Ukrainian riddles and proverbs was assembled by the Ukrainian ethnographer folklorist writer and educator Matvii Nomys pseudonym of Matvii Symonov; 1823-1900. The proverbs cover the most diverse spheres of life customs and beliefs of the Ukrainian people and contributed to the development of national consciousness in Ukraine then a part of the Russian Empire. The book is divided into two parts: the first part in 20 chapters contains 14339 proverbs and sayings the smaller second part offers 505 riddles. <br/><br/>The collection includes proverbs collected not only by Nomys but also by other prominent Ukrainian writers and ethnographers such as the brothers Mykola and Vasyl Bilozerski Panteleimon Kulish Vasyl Lazarevsky Stepan Rudansky and the husband and wife folklorists Opanas Markovych and Marko Vovchok. In the 1840s many of these writers belonged to the secret political society called Cyril and Mythodius Brotherhood with Ukrainian national rebirth as its focus. The Brotherhood advocated the abolition of serfdom literacy and education for the broad masses the possibility for all Slavic nations to develop their language and culture and the unification of all Slavic nations with their center in Kiev. The society was quickly apprehended and its members which numbered at about 100 variously arrested and temporarily exiled in 1847. The brief existence of the society 1846-1847 left a mark on the Ukrainian intellectual milieu and many of the participants continued the project of building national consciousness by other means such as through collecting folklore. The publication of this collection gave a powerful impetus to the further development of Ukrainian paremiography with the second edition published in 1885 and a manuscript facsimile released in 1928. The edition was also confiscated following Alexander II's 1876 Ems Ukase which prohibited the use and dissemination of Ukrainian-language documents. This copy from the library of Ukrainian writer Zinovii Bilenko 1909-1979. KVK OCLC show this edition at Bayerische Staatsbibliothek IISG Monash Ottawa Princeton Toronto UCL and Urbana Champaign. hardcover books
189541534East Aurura N.Y.: Elbert Hubbard The Roycroft Printing Shop 1895. 1st printing BAL 4072; Williams & Starrett pp. 153 - 154. Not recorded by McKenna. Printed self wrappers with burgundy cord tie. Housed in a custom blue cloth case. General wear & soiling with some spot staining. Faint horizontal fold-line. An About VG copy. Unpaginated though 8 pp. Dinner menu p. 7. Untitled 11-line poem by Crane "I have heard the sunset song of the birches" first line p. 8. Front wrapper with wood engraving signed Collin identical to that on the cover of "A Souvenir and a Medley". 9" x 6" <br/><br/>Post-dinner printed momento for this evening given in Crane's honor which publishes pp 3 - 6 diver quips by those invited but unable to attend which included Charles Dudley Warner Maurice Thomposon Irving Bacheller Charles F. Lummis Richard Harding Davis Bliss Carman Hamlin Garland William Dean Howells Daniel Appleton & Ambrose Bierce. Publisher info from BAL. Very scarce in the trade. [Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Printing Shop] hardcover books
1891C0149New York: Sixth American Chess Congress 1891 xxxviii490 pages with table and diagrams. Royal octavo 9 3/4" x 7" bound in original red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and black chess pictorial to both covers. Limited to 500 copies. This is copy 88 issued to F M Teed of Brooklyn New York. Betts: 25-26. 1st edition. Contains the report of the Congress Committee and all 432 games with notes by Steinitz. This was a 20-man Double Round Robin Tournament. One of the longest tournaments in history. In the first half of the tournament draws were counted as a half point. In the second half they were replayed once. Between the 38 regular rounds 8 replay rounds and 4 game playoff for first at the end there were 50 rounds all told !. Like the 4th Congress this tournament consisted largely of foreign masters. The retirement of Captain Mackenzie seems to date from this time though some sources credit him as US Champion until his death in 1891 giving the top American finisher some claim on being de facto US Champion. The top American finisher was Solomon Lipschutz who finished in 6th Place with a score of 22-9=7 Condition: Corners bumped soiled spine ends and corneres rubbed exterior hinge cracked 1" at back head spine Teed's gift inscription on title and individual who received the book name errased some occasional internal soiling spine sunned esle a good copy of a scarce item. First Edition. Original Cloth. Good. Royal octavo. Sixth American Chess Congress hardcover books
193941578San Francisco Shanghai / Macao / Hong Kong: The Trans-Pacific Chinese Junk Expedition Inc 1939. Letters are dated: Nov 20 1938; Jan 18th 1939; Jan 27th 1939; and Feb 16th 1939. Though typewritten and mimeographed all four are personally signed by Halliburton. Letters typewritten to buff paper envelopes with blue seal of the "Sea Dragon" with illustration printed to front. Modest wear to paper some light age-toning and rubbing to papers. Envelopes rubbed and worn. Withal a VG lot. Pages within the letters: 5 3 4 3 Total of 16 typewritten pages. Two black and white Kodak photographs are included printed in 1957 presumably from a negative of Robert Pullen's famous shots of the "Sea Dragon" taken just before its doomed maiden voyage. Letters: 14" x 8-1/2". Photographs:. <br/><br/>Who took the first aerial picture of Mount Everest after receiving express permission by stunning the Majarajah of Nepal with bi-plane aerobatics Richard Halliburton was a legendary American travel writer and adventurer. Reading stories of his feats and antics seem surreal - after all who flies an airplane upside down over the Taj Mahal Halliburton was born in January of 1900 in Brownsville Tennessee. Deciding at an early age not to settle down and grow old with a wife and family as the rest of his family and friends seemed to be doing. After graduating from Princeton Halliburton traveled on as many adventures as possible and published his first novel The Royal Road to Romance in 1925 at the tender age of 25. His first novel became a bestseller and was followed by more published adventures in 1927 and 1929. He enjoyed fame and adventures for a little over a decade before deciding in 1938 that his next grand feat would be to cross the Pacific ocean from Hong Kong to the San Francisco International Exposition in a Chinese Junk ship made expressly for his purposes. It is on this voyage that Halliburton and the entire crew of the Junk the "Sea Dragon" were lost at sea having gotten caught in a typhoon. In 1945 a 150-foot ship outline with Chinese lettering washed ashore in California this thought to possibly be some of the wreckage of the "Sea Dragon." Letter I: Halliburton describes the arrival in China and purpose of the expedition as well as his interest in junks stemming from a 1 ft. scale model he sailed as a child. He explains that he chose to use a junk for his journey because of their stability and notes that it is possible it will not be the smoothest ride. He quips: "If the junk should be small the storms violent and the voyage long - all the better. For if there is no hazard no battle where is the sport" He introduces the "friends" of the expedition to his crew of Captain John Welch Henry von Fehren "Bru" Potter among others. Halliburton also spends a significant amount of time discussing the war with China and Japan and the Japanese belief systems. Letter 2: The second letter discusses the search for an appropriate junk and the ultimate decision to build their own that could be modified for the journey. Working with the man said to be the best ship-builder in Hong Kong Mr. Fat Kau and the appropriation of a few more crew members a chef and a radio operator. Letter 3: The third letter posted from Canton desribes their taking the Sea Dragon out for a "shake down" cruise with Mr. Fat Kau as his guest who though a builder of ships had never sailed on one and with high seas nearly everyone aboard became seasick. Halliburton notes the dry deck despite the high waves and believes he was right about the Sea Dragon's sea-worthiness. Much of the rest of the letter is spent discussing Canton the disputes between the Chinese and Japanese the destruction the looters and other conditions in the city. Letter 4: After setting out on their voyage the Sea Dragon needed to return after only 2 days due to sickness on the boat. Though Halliburton seems only a trifle annoyed at the delay of their voyage he is excited enough to try again and leaves his readers with this: "In about another week we plan to leave again to slip away as quietly as possible and head east once more around the southern tip of Formosa - and straight on to Midway. If all goes well the next letter the fifth will carry an American stamp for Midway Island is American. When this the fourth letter reaches you we'll be a thousand miles along the way - I hope. Many thanks again for your interest and good will. Faithfully Richard Halliburton" The Trans-Pacific Chinese Junk Expedition, Inc unknown books
1891C0039New York: Sixth American Chess Congress 1891 xxxviii490 pages with table and diagrams. Royal octavo 9 3/4" x 7" bound in full leather with gilt lettering to spine. Limited to 500 copies. This is copy 111 issued to R W Ferguson of Flushing New York. Betts: 25-26 .1st edition. Contains the report of the Congress Committee and all 432 games with notes by Steinitz. This was a 20-man Double Round Robin Tournament. One of the longest tournaments in history. In the first half of the tournament draws were counted as a half point. In the second half they were replayed once. Between the 38 regular rounds 8 replay rounds and 4 game playoff for first at the end there were 50 rounds all told !. Like the 4th Congress this tournament consisted largely of foreign masters. The retirement of Captain Mackenzie seems to date from this time though some sources credit him as US Champion until his death in 1891 giving the top American finisher some claim on being de facto US Champion. The top American finisher was Solomon Lipschutz who finished in 6th Place with a score of 22-9=7 Condition: Some internal pencil markings and notations. Attractively rebund in full leather with gilt lettering to spine. A very good copy of a very scarce chess item. . First Edition. Sixth American Chess Congress hardcover books
186762744New York NY: Charles Magnus 12 Frankfort St 1867. A collection of 360 images including several numbered sets. The majority approx. 280 are printed in bronze or sepia ink plus approx. 73 hand or stencil colored and 7 in green ink. All are printed on individual envelope-sized sheets most 3 x 5 1/2 in. but none are full envelopes. The majority are blank on verso and show no signs of mounting some few are backed with blue yellow or pink paper sheets trimmed to fit. All but a dozen or so bear the imprint of "Chas. Magnus 12 Frankfort St. NY." At least one has a Sachse imprint the other handful without imprint are all in the style of Magnus. All are in very good condition. <br/>The several sets include: 1 36 images in bronze ink not consecutively numbered of military hospitals encampments and batteries; 2 12 numbered images in bronze ink of various Civil War battles; 3 12 numbered images in bronze ink of the "Movement of the Army from Washington to Richmond" caption title; 4 11 of 12 numbered images in bronze ink lacking #9 of the "Battle of Gettysburg Pa. July 3 1863" caption title; 5 3 numbered images in bronze ink "Long Bridge Washington By Moonlight" caption title plus copies of two hand or stencil colored; 6 5 numbered images in bronze ink of the "Battle of Winchester under Gen. Shields" cation title; 7 12 numbered images in bronze ink "Siege and Capture of Fort Donelson" caption title plus copies of 8 of the 12 hand or stencil colored; 8 12 numbered images in bronze ink "Camp Scene from Photograph" caption title plus copies of 7 of the 12 hand or stencil colored; 9 12 unnumbered images of Maj. Gen. McClellan and his Generals in bronze ink; 10 two unnumbered sets of 12 each in bronze ink of various Generals portraits over a banner "The Union Must and Shall be Preserved" and accompanied by a full battle map of the U.S.; 11 10 unnumbered images in bronze ink of various Generals portraits each inset on a battle map plus copies of all 10 hand or stencil colored; 12 4 numbered images in bronze ink "Battle of New Bern NC" caption title.<br/>Additional images depict various Union Generals singly or in groups; the Battle of Bull Run; McClellan's Advance on Richmond; the Engagement between the Monitor and the Merrimac; etc. many with caption titles. Charles Magnus a German immigrant was a prolific publisher of lithographed material in New York City including maps and city views and during the Civil War pro- Union patriotic covers stationery and songsheets. He experimented with various colors of ink including the bronze and sepia colors represented in this group and was known for the quality of his printing techniques. <br/><br/> Charles Magnus, 12 Frankfort St unknown books
